UN supports COVID-19 response efforts in Myanmar

UN supports COVID-19 response efforts in Myanmar

The United Nations in Myanmar, together with national and international partners, is supporting health authorities and scaling up efforts to prevent and control the outbreak of COVID-19 and improve access to health care in humanitarian settings in the country, in line with the COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan.

The UN is focusing on vulnerable communities and front-line health workers. To this end, the Myanmar Humanitarian Fund has mobilized the first reserve allocation of US$2 million, including $1 million from the Access to Health Fund to support a coordinated response to COVID-19 related actions for displaced people and other vulnerable crisis-affected people in Chin, Rakhine, Kachin, Shan and Kayin states.

This week has also seen the UN in Myanmar, together with national authorities, mobilize $700,000 to procure necessary medical equipment to conduct 20,000 tests for COVID-19.

Also this week, the UN will deliver much-needed personal protective equipment, including 150,000 surgical gloves and 500,000 surgical masks, to the Ministry of Health and Sports to support front-line health workers.

Country-based Pooled Funds have provided a combined US$78.3 million to COVID-19 pandemic responses across 15 countries.

Original source: UNOCHA
Published on 15 April 2020